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Maybe it's the designers of the original languages that said "LET X = X +
1" (which makes no sense mathematically, as even I can see, at least using
the '+' operator I know) that mistakenly appropriated the term "variable"
for a named something that could be reassigned a new value. Then needing a
term for that class of named somethings whose value could (or would) not be
changed, they picked "constant".
There's a silver lining to the recurring dark cloud of confusion over what's an XSLT "variable". It's good for all computer programmers (and people too!) to learn how slippery are words, even technical terms. Learn that and you have at least a prayer of coming to understand how things actually work. At 03:38 AM 8/13/2002, you wrote: Charles Knell [mailto:cknell@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > It is constant within a context and variable between contexts. > "Varinstant", perhaps? ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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